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...agents and assets keep appearing. Eugene Hasenfus, the American captured by the Sandinistas after his C-123K cargo plane was shot down over Nicaragua on Oct. 5, had performed similar work as a CIA "cargo kicker" over Laos during the Viet Nam War. A more significant connection is George Cave, who was a young CIA agent in Tehran in 1953 when the Company helped engineer the coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power. In the mid '70s Cave served in Tehran as deputy CIA station chief, and the Shah took a personal liking to the suave agent...
...picture in April, when his successor Poindexter phoned him to suggest a mission to Tehran. Poindexter believed the U.S. had an agreement for the release of all remaining hostages. On May 28, after his CIA briefing, McFarlane, along with North, NSC Middle East Specialist Howard Teicher and George Cave, former CIA deputy station chief in Tehran, flew to Iran. As soon as he arrived in Tehran, McFarlane phoned Washington and learned that no hostages had been released. Things went downhill from there. During three days of talks the American quartet met only officials who appeared to have little constituency...
...dear old Yale, 'twas a terrible cave...
...grotesqueries of Gahan Wilson (Playboy, The New Yorker). Nonetheless, Larson's vision is like no other cartoonist's. If a single theme animates his work, it is that man, for all his | achievements, is just one species on earth, and not always the wisest or strongest one. His prehistoric cave dwellers and chunky matrons with beehive hairdos and sequined glasses are vulnerable and foolish, while his cows and bears are wise and resourceful. "It's wonderful that we live in a world in which there are things that can eat us," says Larson. "It keeps us from getting too cocky...
Corporate Editor: Ray Cave...